Dental Core Trainee 2/3 (DCT 2/3)

Job overview

The post holder will undertake a 1 in 8 out of hours on-call rota in  Prince Charles Hospital. Experience will be gained in facial hard and soft tissue trauma, oro-facial infection, deformity, pathology of the jaws and oral soft tissues, facial and oral neoplasia and dento-alveolar surgery. Trainees will work in out-patient clinics, in-patient wards, A&E  departments, Operating Theatres and Minor Surgery units. The surgical team comprises 4 Maxillofacial Consultants, Mr Jonathan  Jones, Mr Jonathan Hulbert, Mr Neil Scott and Mr Sankar Ananth and one Oral Surgery Consultant Mr Keith Smart. In addition, there is second on call support from Associate Specialist and Speciality Doctors.

Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

Dental Core Training Post in Oral & maxillofacial Surgery who will work under the direction of the consultants in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial surgery. There will be daily contact with a multidisciplinary range of staff based on the ward, in the casualty Department, in operating theatres, Outpatients, from pharmacy and administrative staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This training and career development post will provide exposure to a broad range of Oral & maxillofacial surgery.  There will be Hospital Consultation clinics for new and review patients under the supervision of either a Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial or Oral Surgeon.  In addition, there will be expose to minor oral surgery procedures, Day surgery cases and inpatient cases.

There will be study sessions for research, audit and publication activity. Attendance at relevant study days organised for local DF1 and 2 programmes will be encouraged.

Attendance and presentation to the Welsh Hospitals Dental Specialities Meeting is expected.  Support for obtaining a postgraduate examination is provided.

The post is subject to regular appraisal by a named supervising Consultant and monitoring of a portfolio of workplace based assessmts and logbook of activity.

The DCT2 post is recognised for M.F.D.S, MJDF & M.R.C.S. One Study Session per week is timetabled.  A proportion of these sessions will be dedicated to a programme of formal teaching